South Yorkshire SharePoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SharePoint skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SharePoint over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Altrincham Ascot Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hertford Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Wokingham Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	36
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	22	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	23.66 %	3.333 %
Daily rates quoted	12	0
Average minimum daily rate	£278	-
Average daily rate	£295	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£313	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£353
% change on same period last year	+5.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£36.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.41	£29.05
% change on same period last year	-2.21 %
Application Platforms South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	93	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.123 %	0.064 %
Daily rates quoted	34	5
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£349
Average daily rate	£289	£382
% change on same period last year	-24.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£414
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.19	£9.59
Average hourly rate	£23.87	£9.70
% change on same period last year	+146.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.56	£9.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
SharePoint Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SharePoint across the South Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SharePoint across the South Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SharePoint across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SharePoint within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Sheffield	-	6	£278	-
Barnsley	-	3	-	-
Doncaster	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing SharePoint also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SharePoint.

1 11 (37.93 %) Microsoft 2 10 (34.48 %) VLE 3 9 (31.03 %) Education 3 9 (31.03 %) Windows 4 8 (27.59 %) MCSE 4 8 (27.59 %) SQL Server 4 8 (27.59 %) Microsoft Certification 5 7 (24.14 %) Active Directory 5 7 (24.14 %) ITIL 5 7 (24.14 %) MS Exchange 5 7 (24.14 %) SQL 5 7 (24.14 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 7 (24.14 %) SCOM 6 6 (20.69 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 5 (17.24 %) .NET

7 5 (17.24 %) ISA Server 8 4 (13.79 %) SQL Server 7 8 4 (13.79 %) MCP 8 4 (13.79 %) MCSA 8 4 (13.79 %) MS Excel 8 4 (13.79 %) SCCM 9 3 (10.34 %) Visual Studio 9 3 (10.34 %) ASP 9 3 (10.34 %) C# 9 3 (10.34 %) PRINCE 9 3 (10.34 %) MOM 9 3 (10.34 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 9 3 (10.34 %) E-Learning 9 3 (10.34 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 3 (10.34 %) Risk Assessment

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing SharePoint also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SharePoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (17.24 %) .NET 2 3 (10.34 %) ASP 3 2 (6.897 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (6.897 %) AJAX 4 1 (3.448 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (3.448 %) XML 4 1 (3.448 %) XSLT 4 1 (3.448 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 7 (24.14 %) MS Exchange 1 7 (24.14 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 6 (20.69 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 3 (10.34 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (3.448 %) IIS 4 1 (3.448 %) CMS 4 1 (3.448 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 4 (13.79 %) MS Excel 2 2 (6.897 %) InfoPath 3 1 (3.448 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (27.59 %) SQL Server 2 4 (13.79 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (6.897 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) Visual Studio	General 1 9 (31.03 %) Education 2 2 (6.897 %) Marketing 3 1 (3.448 %) Health 3 1 (3.448 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (3.448 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 10 (34.48 %) Administrator 2 9 (31.03 %) SharePoint Administrator 3 5 (17.24 %) Developer 4 2 (6.897 %) Software Developer 4 2 (6.897 %) Project Manager 4 2 (6.897 %) Web Developer 4 2 (6.897 %) SharePoint Developer 5 1 (3.448 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (3.448 %) Consultant 5 1 (3.448 %) Systems Administrator 5 1 (3.448 %) Network Engineer 5 1 (3.448 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (3.448 %) Applications Support 5 1 (3.448 %) Technical Consultant 5 1 (3.448 %) Trainer 5 1 (3.448 %) Test Manager 5 1 (3.448 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (3.448 %) C# Developer 5 1 (3.448 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (3.448 %) Applications Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 10 (34.48 %) VLE 2 3 (10.34 %) E-Learning 3 1 (3.448 %) Client/Server 3 1 (3.448 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 9 (31.03 %) Windows 2 1 (3.448 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (24.14 %) ITIL 2 3 (10.34 %) PRINCE 2 3 (10.34 %) Supplier Management 2 3 (10.34 %) Risk Assessment 3 1 (3.448 %) Document Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Knowledge Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Release Management 3 1 (3.448 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (3.448 %) Performance Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (3.448 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Workflow 3 1 (3.448 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 7 (24.14 %) SQL 2 3 (10.34 %) C# 3 2 (6.897 %) JavaScript 3 2 (6.897 %) C 4 1 (3.448 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 8 (27.59 %) MCSE 1 8 (27.59 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (13.79 %) MCP 2 4 (13.79 %) MCSA 3 1 (3.448 %) ISEB
System Software 1 7 (24.14 %) Active Directory 2 5 (17.24 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 7 (24.14 %) SCOM 2 4 (13.79 %) SCCM 3 3 (10.34 %) MOM 3 3 (10.34 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (3.448 %) OVSD 4 1 (3.448 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 11 (37.93 %) Microsoft 2 2 (6.897 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.448 %) HP